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Policy Analysis

Permit Freedom: Reducing Regulation in Everyday Life


Utahns have the right to reasonable, consistent, and clear rules governing how, when, and to whom permits will be granted.

  • Libertas Institute Staff
  • 14th Jan '21
Policy Analysis

Protecting the Right to Privacy in a Digital Era


The desire to use new technologies in the name of protecting the community cannot come at the expense of an individual’s fundamental rights.

  • Libertas Institute Staff
  • 8th Jan '21
Op-Eds

It’s time to scale back licensing requirements


It's critical that Utah lawmakers remove barriers to entry for workers. Here's why…

  • Connor Boyack
  • 17th Nov '20
Policy Analysis

Government Accountability for Causing Individuals Harm


Utahns should be able to hold their government accountable when its actions cause them harm.

  • Libertas Institute Staff
  • 7th Mar '19
Justice and Due Process

Hate civil asset forfeiture? Here’s a court case in Utah to follow…


The Utah Highway Patrol seized money from a person not suspected of a crime, and then gave it to the federal government—circumventing state law that prohibited them from doing so.

  • Connor Boyack
  • 10th Oct '17
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Winner of the First Annual Libertas Essay Contest’s People’s Choice Award


With 30 submissions in our first annual essay contest, three essays emerged as contenders for the People’s Choice Award—the $500 prize given to the author whose essay received the most Facebook “likes” by...

  • Connor Boyack
  • 25th Aug '12
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Two Sides of the Same Stick


Libertarianism has a media problem. Few reporters and pundits understand how to fit us into the paradigm they cling to, that of the false left/right spectrum in political philosophy. They look “left” and see...

  • Connor Boyack
  • 24th Aug '12
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Free Market
Free Market

An Alternative to Financing Public Works: A Case for Privatization


For the last five years the U.S. economy has been in the dumps. Yields on savings and CDs have plummeted. Corresponding borrowing rates have been attractive for households, and, apparently, states and municipalities as well....

  • Riley Risto
  • 20th Aug '12
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Free Market
Free Market

Utah’s UTOPIA: Necessary Infrastructure or an Illegitimate Pseudo-Market?


A showdown in Orem earlier this week highlighted some of the (significant) problems faced by the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, commonly known as UTOPIA. It also puts on open display the rampant violation of...

  • Connor Boyack
  • 17th Aug '12
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10th Amendment
10th Amendment

Reviving the “Principles of ’98”


Many people feel that there is no hope in standing up to a tyrannical federal government. This despair is understandable, but unproductive. We can find hope in the knowledge that many of the federal government’s creators...

  • Michael Jolley
  • 15th Aug '12
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Utah’s Hairbraiding License Requirements


Jestina Clayton was raised in a village in Sierra Leone and was taught traditional African hair-braiding. Now living in Centerville, Utah, Clayton wanted to provide these services to a growing niche market. She started her own...

  • Connor Boyack
  • 9th Aug '12
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Drop the F Bomb, Go to Jail


KSL reported last night that Ogden city officials are responding to violence at kids’ sporting events by proposing that profanity be outlawed. To justify this component of the ever-increasing nanny state in Utah, Ogden...

  • Connor Boyack
  • 9th Aug '12
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Personal Freedom
Personal Freedom

Realizing True Personal Responsibility and Individual Accountability


Both sides of the political aisle claim a near monopoly on accountability and responsibility while demonizing the “other side” for its irresponsible behavior. These ideals, however, have changed meaning throughout the years....

  • Shiloh Logan
  • 2nd Aug '12
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Property Rights
Property Rights

Keep the Sabbath Day Holy, Or Else!


With a vote of 3-2, the Highland City Council recently lifted longstanding restrictions that prohibited businesses from operating on Sunday.  After much debate and community input, councilmen Tom Butler, Scott Smith, and Tim...

  • Jeremy Lyman
  • 31st Jul '12
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What Do We Mean By Liberty, Exactly?


Since our launch, we’ve fielded a variety of questions from curious Utahns wondering more about what we’re up to. One question recently came in which merits a public response. A reader asks: In your view, what is...

  • Connor Boyack
  • 20th Jul '12
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